A friend sent this quote, as she has sent me many over the years. She knows how to gather them:
Below a
composition of paintings.
Each executed at different times and lucky to have matching widths and depth between the canvases.
A trinity of marks, colour and line gestures
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tribal musings
of the other
SEA RHAPSODY
"Things are not nearly so comprehensible and sayable as we are generally made to believe. Most experiences are unsayable; they come to fullness in a realm that words do not inhabit. And most unsayable of all are works of art, which alongside our transient lives - mysteriously endure. "
Rilke . Letters to a young poet.
TEAL HARMONY OF HAURAKI
Rilke's quote speaks so acutely to why I've had a distaste for 'talking' or 'explaining' my art works and excuses why I've rarely managed to finish reading an art critique, or follow the intellectual banters on "art'.
There are a few exceptions.
I've enjoyed the writings and the journeys AMIE WALLACH takes her readers on. There is a strong honesty to her writing craft as art writer, journalist and as a film maker. Her recent film was on Louise Bourgeois: The Spider The Mistress The Tangerine
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There are a few exceptions.
I've enjoyed the writings and the journeys AMIE WALLACH takes her readers on. There is a strong honesty to her writing craft as art writer, journalist and as a film maker. Her recent film was on Louise Bourgeois: The Spider The Mistress The Tangerine
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the viewer will delve and work out for themselves - when standing in front of my works - to experience the levels of seeing and stages to understanding the works.
So often I hear comments.."the more I am with your paintings the more I begin to see differently into the them' ...'they take on a kind of movement that is not just about ascetics, or "I can't describe what it is I feel but there is something stirring...' .
a deep exchange between me and my viewer begins and within this holds volumes over any art review or theory.
So often I hear comments.."the more I am with your paintings the more I begin to see differently into the them' ...'they take on a kind of movement that is not just about ascetics, or "I can't describe what it is I feel but there is something stirring...' .
I like to hear these comments as it tells me there is a life force within the works...
The experience begins to unravel and an emotive journey of feeling, revealing and of being in the present starts to happen.
Not an intellectual exercise of understanding. That may come later, and is less important to me.
Not an intellectual exercise of understanding. That may come later, and is less important to me.
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This work has evolved since my last posting, and is now done.
OCEAN DRUM
107cm x 200cm
Below a
composition of paintings.
Each executed at different times and lucky to have matching widths and depth between the canvases.
A trinity of marks, colour and line gestures
*
tribal musings
of the other
SEA RHAPSODY
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